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14 Apr, 5 tweets, 2 min read
Yes.
From this essay, written a week before Trump's inauguration. armoxon.com/2017/01/sky.ht…
The only thing I would change about those lines, which I wrote not expecting any readers at all, is that I wouldn't say "nobody cares about their motives" because obviously motives are of interest to historians.

I'd say their motives in no way exonerated them.
Yep. Lesson: word things carefully, because you never know what will become a quote that's passed around the internet until it enters common currency.

And, for what it's worth, this is the passage that directly followed the well-known bit. They joined what they joined. They lent their support and th

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A.R. Moxon Profile picture
15 Apr
The reason this matters is, the ignorance we are up against is *purposeful*. It has design. It has intent. It has goals.

By engaging with purposeful ignorance, the goals of purposeful ignorance are achieved.

So, we mustn't engage. We should simply mock and dismiss it.
The goals of purposeful ignorance are toxic. The intentions are to harm others, in order to achieve a perceived personal benefit.

It's worth listing these goals. There are three main ones.
THE FIRST GOAL OF PURPOSEFUL IGNORANCE

To reinforce a reality, in which people with ignorant, toxic, and harmful ideas and intentions must perpetually be debated, which subtly insinuates that in matters of public policy they are the people whose permission must be sought
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15 Apr
To people complaining “you’ll never convince me with that attitude” when they get mocked for saying purposefully ignorant shit: We’re not trying to convince you. We’re trying to mock you, for being ignorant, to convince everyone else that purposeful ignorance deserves mockery.
If you come with racist or sexist or transphobic or anti-science nonsense, you don’t become some reclamation project who must now be convinced of anything. You’ve proven yourself unworthy of the effort. You become an object lesson on how to deal with toxicity and ignorance.
Assholes of the world: convincing you that bad things are bad and good things are good is far less necessary than you think. Now shut up while we talk about you.
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14 Apr
Do you know the difference between a Nazi and somebody who says and believes things a Nazi says and believes? because I do not.
I think this is quite possibly true. It's certainly very profitable for him. There's clearly a big market for Nazi propaganda and he's filling it.

My point is, he's just as much a Nazi if he doesn't believe it as if he does believe it.
"We are what we pretend to be, so we must be careful about what we pretend to be."
-Kurt Vonnegut, "Mother Night"
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10 Apr
What this thread reveals to me is how, for many people, police corruption can't ever get so bad that they'll stop supporting it.

Which suggests that they always knew what policing in America was, and want it this way. They merely preferred when they could pretend to not know.
Awareness of wrong carries a clear moral mandate to admit it or reject it. Admitting it carries a clear moral mandate to help fix it, or refuse to. Agreeing to fix it means paying the cost of repair.

I'd observe a lot of people don't want to know, because they don't want to pay.
This is why conservatives have set their sights against awareness itself.

Opposing "woke culture" is a tell.
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9 Apr
My suggestions: Stop using "viewpoint diversity" to mean "conservatives get to talk more" and recognize that the conservative reaction against academia is mainly driven by a broad *expansion* of diversity in voices, which conservatives categorically oppose.
There's a reason that conservative framing around diversity boils things down to roughly two sides of "conservative" and "liberal."
It allows them to ignore the fact that we ALREADY have broad diversity, and to frame themselves as the marginalized "side."
And so: voices of every ethnicity become not a multitude of ethnic voices, but "ethnic studies." And so with every facet of gender studies, and religious studies, and all of THAT get boiled to one side: Liberal.

Against which conservatives posit themselves the whole other side.
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9 Apr
Most popular 'news' program on cable.

Neo Nazi talking points are fully mainstream, and its proponents fully in control of the Republican Party.
Replacement is exactly what the Nazis were chanting about in Charlottesville 4 years ago.

Exactly.

Approvingly repeated by Tucker Carlson today.

The difference between Tucker Carlson and neo Nazis or the KKK, ideologically speaking, is nothing.

It's nothing.

He speaks for them.
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